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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-22

I REMEMBER the good old times when
the cloak-room of the Senate was kept
supplied with the best of Apollinaris
water, lemons, sugar, mint, sour mash,
Bourbon whisky, and fine old brandy,
writes a Washington correspondent.
1t was there that Bayard, Thurman,
Garland, Pendleton, Barnum, Vest,
Vance, Beck, Butler, Morgan, and Pugh
gathered to talk over the affairs Of
State. It was around this Democratic
board that I became acquainted with
the demands of each Senator's appetite.
Jim Christie kept the key to the side
board, and was always polite and atten-
tive to his patrons. Bayard generally
took two cuts of loaf sugar to one fluid
ounce of Apollinaris, dashed with four
ounces of Bourbon, favored with lemon,
and washed it down with Apollinaris
before going into the Senate chamber.
Lamar took a morning starter from
three to five ounce of sour-mash
whisky, apothecaries' measure, fol-
lowed with filtered Potomac water.
His %repeaters would diminish in guam
tity, but not in numbers. As the day
passed by a bite of l%icorice would gen
orally follow. Garland took the
regulation Arkansas drink, six
ounces, OF q small tumblerful
of rye, SOU mash, Bourbon, OF
corn whisky, whichever was most handy,
without water or other favoring, which
was repeated as often as circumstances
required. A Senator asked him one
day why he did not take water OF
something with his wine. "Why, sir, "
came the reply, II was brought up to
drink my whisky b~are-legged, as we
call it down in Arkansas, and now, be-
cause I am here in the United States
Senate, I don't intend to put any frills
or silk stockings on my drinks to ap-
pear fashionable. I came here direct
from the people of my State"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-22

SENATOR ALLISON is SO years old,
and is probably the best-preserved
man of his age in all Congress. He is
about five feet ten inches in height,
weighs probably 1876 pounds, wears a
beard that is full, excepting on the lip,
which is shaved, and, although it is
closely cropped, there is little of the
white in it. His hair is slightly sprinkled
with silver, and his only form of dissi-
patton is smoking cigars.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-22

The time is not distant when the
whole globe will be covered with a net
work Of telegraphic wire. Nearly all
commercial ports on every continent
are now in communication with the cen
ter of trade in Europe and America.
The last great gap is about to be filled
up by the laying of cables under the
Pacific Ocean. A company Of British
capitalists has been organized to lay q
cable from Vancouver, B. c., to Hong
Kong, China. There will be branches
and connections with Japan and the
principal islands of the Pacific Ocean.
The Importance of this multiplication
of verbal communication between diff
ferent parts of the world cannot be
overestimated. For one thing, it will
probably lay the basis of a universal
language-a telegraphic code will be
established that can be read by operators
the world V Then, as has been
frequently pointed out, mercantile
profits are reduced.to q minimum when
a knowledge of prices in the various
markets is flashed instantaneously from
the buying to the selling marts of
trade. The enormous profits of former
periods was simply an insurance against
the risks of sending cargoes to distant
ports in ignorance of the prices that
might prevail when the vessels reached
their destinations. There are also
those who dream that this instantane-
GUS communication between one end of
the earth and the other may bring
about a single government for the
whole globe, and thus usher in the new
era when peace will prevail, and indus
try be the II material persuit Of man.
kind. The labor question can never be
settled until there is an agreement all
over the world as to what the working
mans share of the aggregate production
shall be.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-22

Cordially Greeted by a Vast Congregation.
The Eminent Divine Delivers a Sermon
from the Second Chapter of Revelations:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-22

Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God;
But children of the Heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
On the way to triumph that never ends,
and pleasures that never die-sing!
Another characteristic of a live church is
Astonishing Sabbath-school. tits too late
in the history of the Christian Church to
argue the benefit of such an institution.
The Sabbath-school is not a supplement to
the church; it is its right arm. But YOU
say there are dead churches that have Sab
bath-schools. Yes, but the Sabbath
schools are dead, too. 1t is q dead mother
holding in her arms a dead child. But
when superintendent. and teachers, and
scholars come on Sabbath afternoon to-
gether. their faces glowing with interest
and enthusiasm, and their songs are heard
ali through the exercises, and at the close
they go away feeling they have been on the
Mount of Observation-Disclosures is a live
school, and it is characteristic of n live
church. There is only one thing / have
against the Sabbath-schools of this conn
try, and that is, they are too respectable.
We gather into our schools the children of
the refined, and the cultured, and the edu-
Gated; but alas for the great multitude of
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The generous rivalry excited BY tn. n
fering Of large premiums at State .0a
county fairs made every sheep.rais.,
anxious to see his name at the head :.
the list Of prize takers. They desired n.
higher honor than to see In the loc,I
newspapers their names associated
with the heaviest fleece Of wool pro-
duced in the State Similar cans..
resulted i'm bringing up the quality a
fast horses in Kentucky, of mules IN
Missouri, and Of shorthom cattle in
Central Illinois. Raising tobacco suit.
able for cigar wrappers became profit
able in the valley of the Connection,
chiefly because a large number Of DER.
sons of means and Intelligence engaged
IN the business. The like Is true Of ths
success that attended hop-raising in
Central New York and Wisconsin and
the broom-corn production in Eastern
Illinois. Success in almost every in.
dustry depends on united effort and on
collecting the experience of many per.
sons. The minnie details of doing any
kind of work are learned by watching
operations as they are performed and
listening to oral explanations made by
those who have had long experiences
Chicago Times.
The Osceola times., 1887-06-11
ANOTHER TRAIN ROBBERY.
Mail and Express Train on the Texss .
Pacific Railroad Held Up Near fors
worth and Despoiied Of Its Treasure-A
Cool Set OF villains.

A Mail and Express Train on the Texss .
Pacific Railroad Held Up Near fors
worth and Despoiled of Its Treasure-A
Cool Set Of villains.
Form WORTH, Tex, June 6-Woru
reached here that the Texas & racine
east bound mail and express had been
stopped by four masked men near beh-
brook, a siding ten miles west OF Fort
Worth, and the express car and man
robbed. A short time afterward the
train came In and i. Marsh,
the express messenger, was inter-
viewed He says that the train was
stopped suddenly on the trestle over
Brushy Creek, some eight miles west he
threw open the door to see what was up
and found four robbers guarding the
engineer and fireman. Advancing to his
car, they threw their pistols down on
him, and called out: "Up with your
handsw
A man who appeared to be the leader,
who was at least six feet tall, jumped
into the car, and said he wanted all the
money he had, every cent Of it, Marsh
was making up his run for delivery at
Fort Worth, and told the ro6ber
that he had the drop on him
and could take all there was.
The robber started to the safe,
holding a sack in one hand. and with the
other took what he found in the safe and
transferred it TO the sack. He demanded
Of the messenger whether that was the
extent of the vauables On board and
Marsh answered that he had it all. The
mes senger jocularly asked for a cigar, but
the robber said he had none with him.
In ,tpf ont tof ha ha
his three associates went to the mail car,
in charge of Mail Agent Skiles, and the
leader, jumping into the car, ordered
Skies to give him the registered matter.
Three packages were handed out.
After the mail car was through with.
the robbers jumped out and the four
ordering the engineer and fireman to the
cab told them to 60 on, and fast, too. The
engineer pulled out and as he did so one
shot was fired by one of the robbers,
probably with view of frightening tho
passengers. No effort was made to molest
any passengers, none of the coaches be.
ing entered.
As soon as the train reached Fort
Worth Sheriff Shipp was notified. and
started in pursuit with posse Of officers.
When the news spread over the city
there was great excitement, and hundreds
Of men offered to join the pursuing party.
A second posse started about ten O'Clock.
The express messenger says he has o
idea how much money the robbers got.
1t is impossible to tell what amount the
registered packages contained. Tho rob
berry was planned good deal on the
order of the one near Gordon in January
last The messenger says ths robbers
looked like countrymen but were cool in
their work. There was man found In
the vicinity Of the robbery Immediately
after the crime who is thought TO be I'm
plicated.
The train came from Ell Paso, and may
have had a large sum of money on board,
but the general opinion is that the
amount was not very large. The United
States authorities were notified and
went in pursuit before morning.
Careful watch is being kept on persons
entering the city on the various country
roads.
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THE FARMERS LOT.
Ideas of m AgrIcuiturIst Who Takes
Sensible View Of His Calling.

/ am heartily tired of hearing farmer
growl about their business and pity
themselves. There is no call for crosk'
ing, but when produce is low we should
farm better, and try to make the farm
produce the family supplies as nearly
as possible. Tens of thousands
of young men have begun life
on the farm without capital, and.
in middle life, have become owners Of
good, well-stocked farms, and there i
just as good chance in the future s
there has been in the past. There will
be seasons of depression and low prices
but in the long run things will average
up well. 1t is no help TO the man who
has chosen to be farmer to growl and
scold, and it does not alter the fact thai
farming is profitable, for him to sup
port large family on what he grows
and then because he can not show the
cash at the end of the year, to complain
that farming does not pay. i think u
one of our friends prayer should be an
swered, and he should have one hun
dred and fifty children to support, thai
he would find about the only way be
could do it would be to stay on the
farm.
1t would be good plan for farmers
to open a regular account with tns
farm, in which they could credit il WIN
all they use in the family. Some
things would, perhaps, need TO be esr
mated, but others could be charged es'
actly. For example, il beef is killed
credit it at the regular price at whlcp
cattle are selling; when you butcnel
hogs for home use credit them at VIVA
they would bring in the market D,
weighing butter you can soon find ou
the average used per week. When yo'
get grist of wheat ground. credit 'n'
farm with the flour. Make an estlns'
once q week or month, Of the fru's
vegetables. eggs and poultry used, anu
If at the end of the year you do not NV
that the farm has contributed enough
to make fair per cent on its taxaoi.
value, it will be because you have No.
lived mp to your privileges and m'..
the farm as varied in its productions
you ought. Waldo +. Brown, IN oo'"
Try Gentleman.
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A TALK TO FARM BOYS.
why They Can Not BE Too Proud Of Their
Honorable Calling.

Farmer boys, you need not envy the
Young men who stand behind the
counters of the city shops. Yon need not
envy the young men who arc making
ready to take the places of the great
army of lawyers and pettifoggers who
are subsisting by the litigations Of
quarrelsome and contentious clients
And certainly you ought not to envy
the boys who have no employment at
all; those who are growing up to man.
hood without acquiring industrious
habits upon which to rely in times Of
great need and pressing emergencies.
whose idleness invites to temptations
which SO often lure to bodily ruin.
Your clothes may not be so finely spun
and madel as the city boys, but you are
the peers of them all with your bronzed
faces and horny hands, however pre-
tentious their employments. Your bus.
mess is one which antedaies every
other vocation in the world. The farm.
er was blowing and sowing and reap
ing his harvest long before amerchant
or lawyer or doctor was known;
and he still stands foremost at the
gates whence issue TO the mil
lions Of the world the
steady, never-failing streams OF plen-
teousness and life. A generation or 50
ago the brightest boys Of the farmers
family were assigned to the professions.
The dull fellows were sent to the fields
Nowadays different order of things
prevails. Once the idea was popular
that only muscular strength was nee
essary on farm-the strength to
guide plow, to WELD an axe, a hoe or
a scythe-the endurance to go through
with the sweltering tasks Of summer or
the exposing duties of winter. These
important requisites given. booby
might fill the place just as well as any
one else. So some folks used to think,
but what say you, working farmer
boysP Do you not place a higher es.
innate upon your skill, and upon the
value of your servicesP Look up, then,
and vindicate yourselves. You are
getting health and strength from the
wholesome exercises of the fields, and
that you may have the necessary In
telligence to combine with this
strength for the proper prosecution Of
your calling, apply yourselves dill
gently to acquiring knowledge when
ever respite from labor shall give you
the opportunity.-Ameri Farmer
The Osceola times., 1887-06-11
DYNAMiTE'S WORK.
Seven Men instantly Killed and Many
More Injured by a Premature Explosion
of Dynamite in n Pennsylvania stone
Quarry A Fearful Sight.

Seven Men Instantly Killed ana Many
More Injured by a Premature Explosion
of Dynamite In n Pennsylvania stone
Quarry "A Fearful Sight.
ALTOONA, Pa, June 5-Seven men were
instantly killed and six badly injured yes
terday afternoon by premature explo-
sion of dynamite, at the Cambria Iron
Company's stone quarries, at Birming-
ham, this county. Some of the injured
will die. Two of them are Italians; all the
others are American.
Reports from the scene of the explosion
arc meager. The killed and wounded
were In the act Of drilling hole when
the explosion occurred. The accident ap-
pears TO have been even worse than first
reports indicated.
Killed-C. II. Stewart, John Roof, Ellis
Meyer, i. Hodges, II. Neil, J. Schoenfell,G
weisser and an Italian, name not ascer-
tanned here. Only one man Of the entire
party survived, named Russell, and he is
badly hurt.
The scene in and around the little town
beggars description. Wives are almost
crazcd with grief, running to and fro,
wrIhging their hands, weeping for their
hus bands, whose mangled remains lay in
q little clubhouse or shanty waiting the
arrival of the coroner
George Weiser, who was doing the
tamping, was blown high in the air and
fell in hundred pieces. These were
picked up and placed in sheet, but moth
ing but the head denoted that the re-
mains were those Of a human being Two
horses were killed by falling stones and
several carts were com pletely covered
Altogether, 1t is one of the most disastrous
accidents that has occurred in this regi on
for many years, and the excitement oil
the people extends from Huntin gdon Ia
Altoona, and in Tyrone, but three miles
from the scene Of the disaster, groups OF
ANXIOUS citizens are gathered on the
streets, and their sorrowful expressions
denote their sympathies for the living
friends of the dead men.
Four men were badly injured by mis-
siles, as follows: Thomas w. Hiosta, Geo
Hiosta, Nocl Sarner and George Wopner,
The latter was brought to Altoona Hos
pital and is terribly injured. Two Of the
others are thought to be fatally hurt AL
the men reside at Birmingham, and, with
three exceptions, are married and have
families.
The wrecked quarry presents a fearful
sight. There is basin-like opening,
twenty feet in diameter and eight feet
ieep, which shows the fearfulness Of the
explosion. II is estimated that fifty car
loads Of stone and earth were upheaved
It took two hours to unearth the bodies
| Of the victims, they being buried down
twenty feet The remains OF George
weiscr were found neatly wrapped in I
blanket; how they came in this position
nobody can tell. The shock was felt for
miles on all sides, and the inhabitants oi
ncighboring towns thought for hours
| afterwards that an earthquake shock hat
passed over that region. The coroner oi
Blair County is now at the scene OF the
accident holding inquests.
The Osceola times., 1887-06-11
CONDENSED TsLEGRAMS.

1T has been proved beyond doubt that
he steamer Sir John Lawrence was lost
in tho recent cyclone of the coast Of Cal
cutta. The steamer carried 100 passen.
gers, and it is believed the whole number
were lost.
MRS. JAMES NELSON, u sister Of the
late Horace Greeley, is very low at New
Brunswick, M. She is 70 years old.
WALL STREET had great surprise ON
the 9th when the news Of the issue of si0,-
0O0, 600 new stock by the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul Railway Company was
made known.
A FREIGHT TRAIN on the Little Rock,
Mississippi River and Texas railroad was
wrecked near Pine Bluff, Ark, on the 9th,
fourteen cars Of promiscuous freight being
smashed.
Ar Oberlin. o., ON the 5th, during
thunder storm which swept over the north
ern part OF the State, much damage was
done by cloud burst or water-spout.
Two MEN named Russell and Hsrtsille
quarrelled in Athens, Ala, on the 9Th.
One shot and fatally wounded the other.
Both were drunk.
O. p. McMAISs, the anti-grant agitator, is
traversing the northern portion Of the coun
try urging the settlers ON the Maxwell land
grant TO arm themselves and resist all at
tempts Of the grant company TO enforce
their claims TO the laud. McMains has
many followers who are ready to do his
bidding, and the company will meet
strong resistance when they commence
their ejectment suits.
A TEXAS and Pacific express train was
robbed by four masked men, near Fort
Worth, Texas, on the 4th. Three regis
tered letters were taken from the mail
ear and Sl3Go from the express car. The
passengers were unmolest-d.
| ONE death and two new cases OF yellow
! fever were reported at Key West, Fla, on
the 9th. The board of health has declared
the fever epidemic.
! Rsv. DR. REID, who left Manson, Iowa,
TO become . missiosary iu Central Africa,
has been killed and eaten by . tribe of
cannibals.
Ex.vIcE.PREsIDESr WHEELER died at
Malone, N. ", on the 9TH.
SEVEN men were instantly killed and six
badly injured by premature explosion of
dynamite at Birmingham, Pa, on the 4th
The open war made on gambling in Hot
Springs has had the effect to drive many
Of the sporting element Of that place TO
Little Rock.
A NATIONAL ccpvsution Of The Knights
| 4 fAher Meqkiassy Conatrsooors were
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Shocking Calamity.

BERLIN, June 6-During circus per
formance at Neschen Russia. Saturday,
q storm arose and a portion of the roof OF
the circus structure was blown on. The
pendant lamps hanging from the
roof were broken, and the blaz-
ing petroleum poured down upon
the heads Of the people below.
There were two thousand spectators and
fearful panic arose. In the mldst Of tho
tumultone Of the lightly built walls Of the
structure fell In ed the whole building
lunsoiasely collapsed. 4 large nuubsr
4Dogoeaa Vogo tueoo4 - May tgoDr
Z.s1ss - e y. !asss ~ Aza1vse ssaess
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Arrested for Alleged Election Frauds.

INDIASAPoLIs, Ind, June D 6-General
Carnahan. who was recently indicted by
the Federal grand jury for illegal cleo
ton practices, returned from Washington
and was arrested Saturday by the Federal
authorities. Tho Indictment was made
public for the first time. There were five
counts, but only two judges OF election
are named Abel T.. Davis, Second
precinct, Fourth ward, and II. q.
Werbe Second precinct, Thirteenth
ward, aud the General is charged with
aiding, counseling, procuring and advis-
ing these judges to take and carry away
one Of the poll lists and tally pairs Of
their respective precincts, made, signed,
certified, otc.
The Osceola times., 1887-06-11

The latest improvement ~ ~.
York apartment houses is an arraneyu
ment which enables the tenants 10 "'I
letters without leaving their rooms
sluice is in every room, the missivesM w
dropped in. and as fast as they accums
late they are deposited in q pos'ors... NV.
box. 1t is further proposed to regu, ~
all the clocks In the house by
t,iclty. change . calendar IN go
eYesy morning. and show ~ dlss
q - wiaa = Wease = :
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the evening of the lst Theodore
Stohler, of Paterson, N. j., shot his wife,
Adaline, aged twenty three, and then shot
himself He is thought TO have been a
little out of his head for some time. He
was insanely jealous of his wife, who is
quite pretty woman.
FIRE CHEF NEvISs Of the Brooklyn ae-
partment has been indicted for grand
larceny.
TIE German steamer Oder is reported
wrecked and lost at sea.
JOIN A. GOODMAN, aged sixteen years.
was arrested in New York on the ID,
charged with stealing q 900 from the But
terick Publishing Company, by whom he
was employed as mail carrier.
AN unknown man was knocked on the
bridge over Tonawanda creek by train
% the Erie road, near Tonawanda, N. T.,
. ~ - He wae badly mangied.
! QHGunsu 1AoE HuesEy, ~ here Of Castle
- ~ 1unGE - twea>R mo1o1o
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The Osceola times., 1887-06-11

mechanical methods and the more Judi
cious purchase of coal for the public
buildings throughout tho country have re-
suited in saving Of about 80, 0)) under
the appropriation for fuel, light aud water
for the current fiscal year
THE Commissioner of tho General Land
Officc has forwarded to the Secretary OF
the Interior a recommendation that a
| certain contract OF land In Seneca Coun-
ty, o.. one mile square, be sold. This
tract some fifty years ago was allotted 10
the State Of Ohio for school purposes, but
is not occupied. II now turns out tha,
the tract belonged to the Seneca Indians.
! On the 1st the National convention of
| colored men me In Indianapolis for the
purpose OF considering the political bond
| age in which the race has been held since
the war There was but slim attend
ancc, and no business OF Importance was
| transacted.
| THr effects OF the rsc3nt heavy, rains ut
Key West. Fla, are becomng manifest in
an increase Of sickness al that place. Six
new cases OF yellow fever arc now being
treated by the health authorities.
| A JuRY-rIxISo scnsatiou has broken out
In connection with th Jake Sharpe trial
in New York.
l Ann S"""uieh rou"'c "a' ueciuco that
G divorce sec ured In the United States is
not good In Canada.
SIx couples went to Washington from
Richmond, Va, on the 81, to get married.
The cheapness OF ths marriage licenses
attracted them. They saved enough by
purchasing licenses l., Washington 10 pay
their expenses from Il camona. thus Sc
curing the cheapest bridal tour on record.
OK the 81 work was begun at kicl, Ger
| many, on the new Baltic canal
AN unknown maa lcit two packages a,
Heidrick's Express ofico in Jersey CITY,
n J., on tho ~, for delivery, one TO In
opoCter nyraes and tho other to tho Brit
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